Re: Banished
Words

: : : : Continuing
along the medical theme, how about the overused journalistic phrase: "...lost
his brave battle with cancer." The Onion, a satirical newspaper, had a headline
saying someone, "...Lost His Cowardly Battle with Cancer." Another journalistic
cliche, "grim task," referring to cleanup/body recovery after a disaster.

:
: : 1) "Transition" used as a verb. "We are going to transition you to the green
team."
: : : 2) "Reactionary" used in bizarre ways. "Jenny was like really
reactionary when I told her I was leaving."
: : : 3) "Speak to" instead of
"respond to" or "address". "Josh can speak to that point"

: : : We could also
like, banish "like", you know?

: : Why is it so often reported that some celebrity
or other gave birth to a baby girl or a baby boy? Any boy or girl who has just
been born is a baby.

: "Going forward, the reports are now due by the 3rd Monday
of the first month of every quarter."
: Going forward?
: Is this just NY
trendzoid speak or has this infected other parts of the planet?

Please please
let's banish "paradigm" and ANYTHING happening either inside or outside some hypothetical
box.
However, the most idiotic statement I can think of is "Raid kills bugs
dead". Huh?

Perhaps we could extend the list to words that happen because people
refuse to read, preferring to simply repeat what they hear others say.
As in
"You could of told me" or "in the interm,...".
Geez.
C.